Implement a configurable rate limit #2048

I am using python-can (more specifically canopen) to send out messages to a bunch or nodes.

Issues seem to arise when I send a lot of packets at the same time, my assumption is that the recipients can not keep up with the frame stream, and thus packets are dropped.

My Idea is to implement some sort of rate limiting, for example by passing messages to a queue and having the library send out all queued messages with an interval inbetween.

Something like

queue = queue.Queue()

while True:
  msg = queue.get() # blocking
  transmit(msg)
  time.sleep(1 / self.max_messages_per_second)

Cheers!